LINGUIST List 15.1079

Thu Apr 1 2004

Qs: Participle Fronting; Chinese/Urdu Dictionary

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Dear all,
I'm looking for languages that allow for Verb Auxiliary orders of the
type of Dutch, German, SerboCroatian, Bulgarian... That is, Verb
Auxiliary orders that aren't base generated like that (i.e., in a left
branching structure), but have been usually attributed to leftward
movement of the verb over the auxiliary (either as long head movement,
remnant VP movement...). E.g., in Dutch
Gezien_i heb ik Jan t_i
seen have I Jan
It would be wonderful if your replies include example sentences of the
particular language.
A summary will be posted in due time.
Cheers
Luis Vicente
Leiden Centre for Linguistics
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
Netherlands

Does a Chinese-Urdu dictionary exist, and how may I obtain one?
Simplified Chinese would be best, but certainly a Traditional Chinese
one would be better than none.
Thank you.
Subject-Language: Chinese, Mandarin;Urdu; Code: URD